1963

Deerfield Academy is seeking a new dean of faculty because the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn., also one of the nation's premier boarding schools, has appointed Skip Mattoon to be its new headmaster. He replaces Robert Oden, former chairman of the Dartmouth religion department, who headed Hotchkiss for six years and was recently named president of Kenyon College. For Skip, Hotchkiss is a high point in an academic career nurtured at Deerfield, his alma mater, where hebegan in 1982 as dean of faculty and recently assumed the mantle of associate headmaster as well. Both schools are thriving, says Skip, with a broadening pool of qualified applicants and healthy endowment funds. A Yale Ph.D. in history, he taught at the University of Michigan and Arizona before joining Deerfield. Lynn, also a Yale Ph.D., left her teaching position at Deerfield for die business world. Daughter Danielle is an editor at Details, the new hot generation X magazine in New York. Her sister, Ashley, is earning a master's in environmental science at Michigan.

From his college days Gary Silver exuded boundless enthusiasm for everything he undertook from pre-medical studies to sports and fun. So it stands to reason that he has put together an outstanding program in San Jose, Calif., providing heart surgeries free of charge to adults overseas who have little or no access to health care. Over seven years he operated on 15 patients from places like Eastern Europe, Africa, and South America. It's helped earn him the International Humanitarian Award from Boys Town Inc. of Italy in New York. Only Perry Como, Joe DiMaggio, and Richard Swig, owner of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, won this award in the last 16 years.

Paul Binder, founder of the renowned Big Apple Circus in New York, believes there's more to life for children of performers than trapezes and elephants. So he's established an unusual state-chartered academic school in an apple-red trailer that travels 5,000 miles a year. The school is in session 38 to 40 weeks a year and meets most Saturdays and Sundays when there are performances. Its eight students include Paul's daughter Katherine, 10, who performs on elephants. Recently the school exceeded the norms on the lowa test of basic skills. Bob Wilson, a Dallas corporate communications specialist, has published Character Above All, an anthology of profiles by leading presidential historians like Truman biographer David McCullough. Adam Berkowaitz, son of class president Rich Berkowitz, is a budding sportswriter with the New York Daily News. He edits The Matchups column, including "Berk's Bits," a weekly inside look at the National Football League.

Here's a happy tale of two people introduced by their dogs one sunny day in New York's Grade Square Park. Jerry Uram, real estate attorney, divorced and single, met and married Melissa, a psychotherapist at Lenox Hill Hospital, and now, in addition to Melissa's 11-year-old daughter Carolyn, the couple lives in a Gracie Square apartment with two dogs and a cat.

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Big Apple Circus founder Paul Binder believes performers children should know more than trapezes and elephants-so he's established a moving school. HARRY ZLOKOWER '63